{"id":207311,"date":"2020-07-02T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/?p=207311"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:48:34","slug":"equity-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/2020\/07\/02\/equity-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Department establishes pledge in response to equity initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The initiative followed the hashtags #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives. MSU\u2019s Department of Mathematics initiated a pledge in response to these initiatives. Members of the Department understand the need to act now and have vowed to take action steps including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work on a plan to build meaningful connections with K-12 schools and local community organizations that allow for greater participation of\u00a0BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students\u00a0in STEM disciplines, particularly mathematics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact chairs and representatives at HBCUs to recruit their students for an international summer internship to start next year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Include articles suggested by the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/ascnhighered.org\/ASCN\/resources\/191949.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ascnhighered.org\/ASCN\/resources\/191949.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594211350495000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHgZGeu69q5C1mKhtPaklh4w37hUw\">ASCN (Accelerating systemic Change in STEM Network) website<\/a>\u00a0on our reading list this fall.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Revise our curriculum to reflect all of these elements and build on our collective strengths.\u00a0As a department which is committed to mathematics and teaching, we are uniquely situated to\u00a0fight injustice through the interplay of quantitative and qualitative ways of exploring, understanding, and changing our world.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Revise our curriculum with a focus on social justice issues.\u00a0A math major must have certain quantitative skills and learn to appreciate the beauty of mathematical thinking but also have a keen sense of the larger implications of STEM on our society.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read important articles (specifically\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3102%2F0013189X19831006\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3102%252F0013189X19831006&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594211350495000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEHna5LLDfvNXn4dSamw7KF_fSnrw\"><strong>Does STEM Stand Out? Examining Racial\/Ethnic Gaps in Persistence Across Postsecondary Fields<\/strong><\/a>) on academic racism to help inform our scholarly work on equity and access for under-represented groups in STEM.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">During our conference presentations, incorporate discussions about what we can do as an organization to bring more diversity to students who enter into mathematics teaching in NJ.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">Become a member of \u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nam-math.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nam-math.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594211350495000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQe-gknFNRqDSvPWWs5P2aUJYo3w\"><strong>The National Association of Mathematicians<\/strong><\/a>, which was founded in 1969 by a group of Black and Hispanic mathematicians in response to systemic racism that was\/is present in our major mathematics conferences and in the largest professional organization in our field, the American Mathematical Society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 10, 2020, members of the global academic and STEM communities took some time to reflect, educate themselves, and suggest actions to eradicate anti-Black racism in academia and STEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208098,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207311\/revisions\/208098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/mathematics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}